Analyzing The Video 'I Love Lucy'
In the "I Love Lucy" video, how does translanguaging work for Ricky?
In the video, Ricky uses translanguaging to make meaning of the conversations around him. Since this video is a compilation of short clips taken from several episodes (and a TV show), it is hard to tell exactly what is going through Ricky’s head each time he uses translanguaging. He draws on what he knows from the two languages, and what those he is talking to knows in the one language, and shares the information he wants to in the most understandable way. Sometimes that means mixing languages, sometimes it means sticking to one.
How is he using language with Little Ricky when he is telling a story to him?
When Ricky is telling Little Ricky a bedtime story, he is mixing a …show more content…
We can see how overall how comprehensible input and output are crucial during the clip where Lucy is making him read from a children’s book, and Ricky is struggling with all the words that end in “o-u-g-h” because of all the different sounds that “o-u-g-h” makes in English; the input was not comprehensible based on what he knows in Spanish or what he knows in English in terms of reading written text, so the output was not comprehensible in either language. I don’t think that this is a very good clip to demonstrate how Ricky uses languages with Lucy because most of the the responses we get from Ricky are in Spanish, which Lucy does not understand. This could be on an ongoing thing, but I can only imagine that he doesn’t always use Spanish when communicating with Lucy. In the first couple of opening clips, we can see that when Ricky uses Spanish with Lucy, she doesn’t understand hardly anything that is being said and has a confused look on her face (which I am sure we will see on our students’ faces at some point too). We can, however, see that comprehensible input and output are crucial in how he uses languages with his friends; since he is more comfortable with Spanish (an assumption based on what I saw because there was limited moments of conversations in English), he is more comfortable talking to his friends who are also Spanish speakers. The moments where we did hear him speak in English were often slower and more thought out.
What are your thoughts of Lucy's efforts in trying to learn Spanish to communicate with Ricky's family? What are some characteristics of SLA you see
In the video, Ricky uses translanguaging to make meaning of the conversations around him. Since this video is a compilation of short clips taken from several episodes (and a TV show), it is hard to tell exactly what is going through Ricky’s head each time he uses translanguaging. He draws on what he knows from the two languages, and what those he is talking to knows in the one language, and shares the information he wants to in the most understandable way. Sometimes that means mixing languages, sometimes it means sticking to one.
How is he using language with Little Ricky when he is telling a story to him?
When Ricky is telling Little Ricky a bedtime story, he is mixing a …show more content…
We can see how overall how comprehensible input and output are crucial during the clip where Lucy is making him read from a children’s book, and Ricky is struggling with all the words that end in “o-u-g-h” because of all the different sounds that “o-u-g-h” makes in English; the input was not comprehensible based on what he knows in Spanish or what he knows in English in terms of reading written text, so the output was not comprehensible in either language. I don’t think that this is a very good clip to demonstrate how Ricky uses languages with Lucy because most of the the responses we get from Ricky are in Spanish, which Lucy does not understand. This could be on an ongoing thing, but I can only imagine that he doesn’t always use Spanish when communicating with Lucy. In the first couple of opening clips, we can see that when Ricky uses Spanish with Lucy, she doesn’t understand hardly anything that is being said and has a confused look on her face (which I am sure we will see on our students’ faces at some point too). We can, however, see that comprehensible input and output are crucial in how he uses languages with his friends; since he is more comfortable with Spanish (an assumption based on what I saw because there was limited moments of conversations in English), he is more comfortable talking to his friends who are also Spanish speakers. The moments where we did hear him speak in English were often slower and more thought out.
What are your thoughts of Lucy's efforts in trying to learn Spanish to communicate with Ricky's family? What are some characteristics of SLA you see